Ireland's "Crack" Habit - Explaining the faux Irish pub revolution.

Of particular interest to me (especially the readers' comments), as both an appreciator of "authentic" Irish-American pubs and a former American "barmaid" in the UK.

damali ayo (creator of rent-a-negro.com) was interviewed in Bitch magazine's Fall 2005 issue.

I found a lot of it inspiring and/or paralleling to my own aspirations and/or practices in political art.

(I don't really agree with the very first sentence--on all art being activism [though that might depend on how you define activism]--but the rest is ( Read more... )

from BBC News- Slobodan Milosevic: Your comments

What is your reaction to the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ( Read more... )

I emailed Princeton University Press with this question:

This is a bit of a random question, but I was wondering about a font used on a Princeton Paperback book. The book title is "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?" by Susan Okin; I'm curious as to what the font on the back cover is. Let me know if you can help me in this quest! :)I found the ( Read more... )

from "Inside The Live Reptile Tent: The Twilight World Of The Carnival Midway" by Bruce Caron (text) & Jeff Brouws (photos)

"[Sideshow freaks'] lives were tracked with the same ardor that fans would later show for Hollywood's own freaks: its movie stars. For it takes a parellel heroic to live with either deformity or celebrity in an age of ( Read more... )

homely (according to the Oxford University Press Dictionary)

British: 1. simple but comfortable; 2. unsophisticated
American: 1. unattractive

"Here I want to show that the carnival is not a trivial cultural anomaly, and not simply a sideshow to 'more serious' cultural practices. First we need to rethink the idea of cultural 'importance ( Read more... )

"The whole time I daydream about a paradise planet where everyone lives forever, and their primary pursuit is falling in love with each other and then saying goodby and going away for a million years. They'd say the saddest, sweetest so-longs. In fact, saying goodbye would be this planet's most popular art form. Then a million years later, they'd ( Read more... )

nor·mal
adj.
1. Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type
2. Biology. Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies.
5a. Relating to or characterized by average intelligence or development.
5b. Free from mental illness; sane.

- dictionary.com

"In an attempt to seem quaint or old-fashioned, many store signs such as 'Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe' use spellings that are no longer current. The word ye in such signs looks identical to the archaic second plural pronoun ye, but it is in fact not the same word. Ye in 'Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe' is just an older spelling of the definite article the. The y ( Read more... )